# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rigas-velestinlis
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:40:35.601Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rigas-velestinlis"
name: "Rigas Velestinlis"
slug: "rigas-velestinlis"
description: "Rigas Feraios or Velestinlis, born as Antonios Rigas Velestinlis, was a Greek writer, political thinker and revolutionary, active in the Modern Greek Enlightenment. A victim of the Balkan uprising against the Ottoman Empire and a pioneer of the Greek War of Independence, Rigas Feraios is today remembered as a national hero in Greece."
tagline: "Greek philosopher (1757-1798)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rigas_Feraios_01.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "TR"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1757"
deathDate: "1798-06-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             1.576271186440678
  historical:           23.48514
  currentAttention:     8.757062146892656
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump